Yet Another Week in Donald Trump Poetry (Feb. 20-26)

From the churches of Charleston to the casinos of Las Vegas, Donald Trump last week continued to add big league poetry to the national scene. The Billion Dollar Bard began composing last Saturday, following his victory in the South Carolina Republican primary. BEAUTYThere's nothing easy about running for president, I can tell you. It's tough. It's nasty. It's mean. It's vicious. It's beautiful.

Next morning, the Bard appeared on CNN's "State of the Nation" to discuss his re-tweets of Twitter posts by white separatists. In a spontaneous moment, he performed an impersonation of the famed "Hogan's Heroes" TV character, a beloved Nazi known as "Sergeant Schultz."I KNOW NOTHINGI know nothing about. I mean, I don't know about retweeting. I mean, you retweet somebody, and turns out to be a white supremacist. I know nothing.He also virtually crowned himself the most popular man in the history of upstate New York.TAKE THAT, MARK TWAINUpstate New York!

I'm like themost popular person that's ever lived!Virtually.Upstate New York!Also Sunday morning, he appeared on ABC's "This Week," where he offered this poem about the GOP party apparatus. VERY UNFAIRI don't think I'm being treated fairly by the RNC because every time I walk into a, into a debate... (You know, I'm self-funding my campaign, so I'm not getting money from special interests and, you know, the big drug companies, et cetera, whereas everybody else is, everybody on both sides, but everybody else is...) And I walk in and they have all special interests, lobbyists and donors sitting in the room... (And I don't have any donors. I don't have any special interests. I don't have any lobbyists. So I walk in, it's like dead silence except for my wife and kids.)

And these guys walk in and they say something that is stupid or not even good, and they get standing ovations every time they open their mouth... It's very unfair.

Tuesday, at a rally in Las Vegas, The Bard treated us to a possible glimpse of his 2017 State of the Union address.A PRESIDENTIAL ADDRESS Bye bye. Look, see? He's smiling. He's having a good time. Ohhh, I love the old days, you know? You know what I hate? There's a guy, totally disruptive, throwing punches. We're not allowed to punch back any more. I love the old days. You know what they used to do to guys like that, when they were in a place like this? They'd be carried out on a stretcher, folks. Ah, it's true. You know. I love our police, and I really respect our police.And they're not getting enough, they're not. Honestly. I hate to see that. Here's a guy, throwing punches, nasty as hell, screaming at everything else, when we're talking, and we're walking out. We're not allowed, you know, the guards are very gentle with him, he's walking out like, big high fives, smiling, laughing... I'd like to punch him in the face.

Of course, Trump won the Nevada caucus. And that night, in an emotional poem of hope, he channeled legendary TV pitchman Billy Mays.BUT WAIT, THERE'S MORE!It's hard for me to turn down money! Because that's not whatI've done my whole life! I grab and grab and grab! You know, I get greedy!I want money, money! And now I'll tell you what we're going to do!Right? We get greedy, right? Now, we're going to get greedy for the United States! We're going to grab, grab and grab! We're going to bring in so much money, and so much everything. We're going to make America great again! Folks, I'm telling you...Thursday, he appeared with former Presidential candidate Pat Robertson in a Virginia forum to discuss his on-and-off relationship with the Pope.FIVE POEMS ABOUT THE POPEI.He was told probably that, "Oh, you have this man named Trump, and he wants to create a very strong border, and he wants to build a wall..."II.My people came up to me, and they said, "Mr. Trump, the Pope just made a big statement about you!" I said, "GOOD OR BAD?"III. They said, "Not good!" I said, "THIS IS A DISASTER!" IV.Then I said the first thing I thought of: I said, "But I've seen the Vatican. That's the most incredible wall."V. He was actually very nice, but it was a very interesting period. You don't want to hear, the day before your election, that the Pope said something about you.

CROSSTALKING WITH MARCOI. No, no, I'm the only one on the stage that's hired people. You haven't hired anybody!II. And by the way, I've hired -- and by the way, I've hired tens of thousands of people over at my job. You've hired nobody!III. You've had nothing but problems with your credit cards, et cetera. So don't tell me about that!IV. You haven't hired one person, YOU LIAR!V. That's wrong! That's wrong! TOTALLY WRONG!VI. I've hired tens of thousands of people over my lifetime. Tens of thousands...VII. Be quiet. JUST BE QUIET!

The campaign continues next week with no doubt a Super Tuesday of verse on its way.